I have been trying to get a simple CMD script or PowerShell or even a utility to get Windows 10 to download and install Windows Updates for about a year. It has not gone well. Note that Angus Briggs at PDQ …
Windows 10 Team is a specialized edition of Windows 10 that includes a number of custom collaboration tools and functions, that is currently only available on Windows Surface Hub. That naturally leads to the question “What is Windows Surface Hub?”. Windows Surface Hub is …
We explain and demonstrate what Intel Optane is, what you need to run it, and if it will really improve your PC’s performance. What is Intel Optane? Intel Optane is an accelerator for your hard drive. Intel Optane is stick of …
If you have ever tried to ping a computer that is offline, you will see one of two responses: REQUEST TIMED OUT, or REPLY FROM XX.XX.XX.XX: DESTINATION HOST UNREACHABLE The difference is what is responding: If you see REQUEST TIMED …
If you are finding that the ‘grammar check’ in Office products (Word, Outlook…) are pointing out more than you would like, you can adjust it. The latest version of Office 2016 offers two Grammar settings: GRAMMER Typical grammar checking GRAMMER …
In a word, everywhere. Android sells 6 times as many devices as Apple’s iOS globally and 1.75 times as many in the US. Below are some fantastic 2017 data from two very reliable sources. Get the whole report on 2017 …
Intel used to have a pretty simple naming scheme for its CPU’s but as the market demanded more features, Intel started adding suffix letters to its processors. Often the letters added on to the end of an Intel CPU number can mean enormous differences. …
Even the latest Windows 10 1703 still has SMB1 enabled by default. If you want to keep yourself safe from WannaCry / WannaCrypt0r 2 variants you need to disable SMB 1.0. You can disable SMB 1.0 in 5 ways: A – How …
If your Windows 10 Start Menu icons and tiles turn dark and / or get a ‘download progress bar’ under them you can easily reset them. In previous versions of Windows 10, if your start menu icons stopped working you could resolve …
If you have Windows 10 Enterprise or Education you should be able to use a GPO to set a custom lock and home screen. Unfortunately, Windows 10 1703 broke that and it has been driving many IT staff crazy trying to fix it. …
In early versions of Windows 10 it was not readily possible to downgrade from Windows 10 Enterprise to Win 10 Pro. In fact, the supported process was to perform a clean install. The dance around that was to make some registry …
If you have a corrupt profile in Windows 10 there are two easy ways to remove it and rebuild it: 1: REMOVE CORRUPT WINDOWS PROFILE USING GUI: CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM AND SECURITY > SYSTEM > ADVANCED SYSTEM SETTINGS (from the …
If your Office 2016 ProPlus was installed using the Office Deployment Toolkit (ODT) then you may be not know what branch of Office you are using. Fortunately there are two easy ways to determine which Branch of Office 365 ProPlus …
If you have Windows 10 1703 or newer your Internet Explorer will have a “Edge Tab” to the right of your “new tab” tab. This means people will frequently launch the Edge Browser when they are really trying to open …
One of the features Microsoft introduced into Outlook is to reply in the READING PANE rather than in a separate window. While I appreciate that this cleans up the interface, it does make navigating into old messages while composing new …